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===Topic: ''Movement''===

===Topic: ''Stillness Meditation''===

===Group: [[Spokane TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

===Teacher: [[Paulo]]===

===Teacher: [[Michael]]===

===TR: [[Gerdean]]===

===TR: [[JL]]===

==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

MICHAEL:  Good evening, my dear children, this is Michael.  Tonight I would like to go deeper into what Mother Spirit and I have mentioned before, and that is the nature of the meditation we invite you to bring into your lives.  When the Urantia book was conceived and then put together by many different spiritual personalities coming from far away to co-author the book, we were aware you had so many traditions of different kinds of meditations, we didn’t think it necessary to more than briefly allude to them.  Yet recently we’ve decided to make this a principle point in our lessons, not so much to add one more kind of meditation to those you’ve evolved over the years, but to point out the reflective essence of all of them.

MICHAEL:  Good evening, my dear children, this is Michael.  Tonight I would like to go deeper into what Mother Spirit and I have mentioned before, and that is the nature of the meditation we invite you to bring into your lives.  When the Urantia book was conceived and then put together by many different spiritual personalities coming from far away to co-author the book, we were aware you had so many traditions of different kinds of meditations, we didn’t think it necessary to more than briefly allude to them.  Yet recently we’ve decided to make this a principle point in our lessons, not so much to add one more kind of meditation to those you’ve evolved over the years, but to point out the reflective essence of all of them.

===Lesson===  

===Lesson===  

* Stillness meditation

* Stillness meditation

   

   

This is a way of introducing stillness--to some, at first, a foreign-seeming activity which has often been expressed as a paradox or a self-contradiction, stillness being a not-doing as contrasted to your usual activities.  We choose to avoid this contradiction and call it an activity, a definite doing, especially in your very time-regulated modern lives where you literally take your manufactured time as some kind of natural law, as if Mother Nature were wearing a wrist watch.  You can become enslaved to this kind of time and so we remind you that, in addition to this mechanical time, there is also organic time.  Mother Nature has a beating heart, not a wrist watch.  It was upon her rhythmic cycles that you first conceived the notion of measuring this moving dimension, this dimension of motion.  One of the gifts of meditating is taking her time out of clock time to feel your organic reality.

This is a way of introducing stillness--to some, at first, a foreign-seeming activity which has often been expressed as a paradox or a self-contradiction, stillness being a not-doing as contrasted to your usual activities.  We choose to avoid this contradiction and call it an activity, a definite doing, especially in your very time-regulated modern lives where you literally take your manufactured time as some kind of natural law, as if Mother Nature were wearing a wrist watch.  You can become enslaved to this kind of time and so we remind you that, in addition to this mechanical time, there is also organic time.  Mother Nature has a beating heart, not a wrist watch.  It was upon her rhythmic cycles that you first conceived the notion of measuring this moving dimension, this dimension of motion.  One of the gifts of meditating is taking her time out of clock time to feel your organic reality.

   

   

If you have any questions or comments this evening, this is also where they come from.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, this is also where they come from.

Student:  Thank you, Father Michael, for the insights and encouragement on meditation and stillness.  But I still don’t understand it.  I don’t even know if it’s available for understanding, but I look forward to meeting you and Mother and my Father Fragment in meditation.

Student:  Thank you, Father Michael, for the insights and encouragement on meditation and stillness.  But I still don’t understand it.  I don’t even know if it’s available for understanding, but I look forward to meeting you and Mother and my Father Fragment in meditation.

   

   

   

   

You also have a soul that you cannot yet even begin to encompass.  But you will some day when you join with its co-author, an individualized fragment of God.  Think what a glory it is you can know so much of this now--if you so choose, and are willing to pay the strange price of determined meditation.  We thank our Father that He has such surprises in store for us--to tickle our souls with such gladness.  And I thank you, my daughter.  I thank you that we can share what is so far beyond these words.  Thank you for feeling and sharing my peace with me, and with all of us here.

You also have a soul that you cannot yet even begin to encompass.  But you will some day when you join with its co-author, an individualized fragment of God.  Think what a glory it is you can know so much of this now--if you so choose, and are willing to pay the strange price of determined meditation.  We thank our Father that He has such surprises in store for us--to tickle our souls with such gladness.  And I thank you, my daughter.  I thank you that we can share what is so far beyond these words.  Thank you for feeling and sharing my peace with me, and with all of us here.

My children: we carry these moments with us out into the world--however threatening, however inimitable it can really be.  That too was part of my experience here--to accept the crucifixion looming before me, trusting that: I am!--and I will survive!  I’ll even go on to know my Father face to face some day.  So it was with me, and so it can be for you.  You have my word on this.  Truly: be in my peace.  Good evening.

My children: we carry these moments with us out into the world--however threatening, however inimitable it can really be.  That too was part of my experience here--to accept the crucifixion looming before me, trusting that: I am!--and I will survive!  I’ll even go on to know my Father face to face some day.  So it was with me, and so it can be for you.  You have my word on this.  Truly: be in my peace.  Good evening.